Let's also remember that it is about those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us. And with that in mind, also this, from Andy Rooney (back in 2005):
Remembering doesn't do the remembered any good, of course. It's for ourselves, the living. I wish we could dedicate Memorial Day, not to the memory of those who have died at war, but to the idea of saving the lives of the young people who are going to die in the future if we don't find some new way - some new religion maybe - that takes war out of our lives.
That would be a Memorial Day worth celebrating.
Rooney was himself a WWII vet, who lost many friends in that conflict.
